Pretty Peg / Craig's Pipes

When pretty Peg went down the street Some fresh fish for to buy But the wee town clerk followed after her And he kissed her by and by Chorus (after each verse): With my tiddy-right-fol-da-liddle-dido With my tiddy-right-fol-da-liddle-day "Oh how can I get to your chamber, love? Or how can I get to your bed? When your daddy goes to bed at night With a keen eye on his head?" "Oh go and get the ladder, love With thirty steps and three And put it to the chimney top And come down in a creel to me" "I went and got a ladder, love With thirty steps and three And a creel on the top of that And come down in the lum to thee" No peace nor ease could the old wife get With dreams running through her head "I'll lay on me life," said the gay old wife "There's a boy in me daughter's bed" Then up the stairs the old man crept And into the room did steal Silence reigned where the daughter slept And he never twigged the creel "My curse attend you, father What brought you up so soon? To put me through my evening prayers And I just lying down?" He went back to his gay old wife He went back to she "She has the prayer book in her hand And she's praying for you and me" No peace nor ease could that old wife get 'Til she would rise and see She came on a stumbling-block And into the creel went she "Oh high I rocked her, oh I rocked her Didn't I rock her well? For if any old wife begrudge me her daughter I'll rock her into hell"